No Mandir Bill

The win­ter ses­sion of Par­lia­ment is un­likely to see any leg­isla­tive move on the Ram mandir is­sue. Cit­ing BJP chief Amit Shah’s com­ment, two top Cab­i­net min­is­ters in­di­cated that the Gov­ern­ment would rather wait for the court ver­dict. An ear­lier or­di­nance brought by the Narasimha Rao Cab­i­net had been re­jected by the courts. Though the trea­sury is con­vinced that no party other than the Left would dare op­pose a Ram mandir bill, it may cre­ate an ag­gra­vated, emo­tive at­mos­phere that may de­rail the pass­ing of four other or­di­nances, in­clud­ing the one to make Triple